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A public board meeting will also take place today at 10am. At the meeting, hospital bosses will attempt to reassure people the appropriate plans are in place for the ambulance service and other hospitals to cope with the additional workload caused by the closure. Advice will also be given to people on what they should do in an emergency.

The meeting will take place in the lecture theatre of the hospital’s academy, at its Grange Road site. It will begin at 10am.